I know this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find a thread that really helped me. Basically I'm building a lunetta system right now and I really don't want to use batteries. Just looking for a basic way to plug this in to the wall if anyone can help me out. Thanks.

as stated in the schematic, the 78xx is a voltage regulator IC. The xx designates the desired output voltage, 7812 being a 12v regulator.
You will want to have a few volts higher of an input to the regulator so it can perform its regulating magic.

On each CMOS chip you should have a 100nF decoupling cap between the +v and gnd pins; as close as possible to those pins.

The diode is there to avoid negative voltage being applied to the circuit.

one other question I have pertaining to this is how to hook up a dc power jack for the wall wart? I don't know which terminals to hook up on the jack to what. I've searched around but I haven't been able to figure it out. Thanks.

I used this same exact setup using the 7805 for my lunetta. But, I figured the decoupling caps weren't necessary on each module since this regulated power supply is decoupled already. Bad idea? My lunetta runs great with this. Think I'll have problems in the future?

I was also unsure what amperage my power supply should be. I used a 2A wall wart. Seems to work good.

well in my video synth, for example, i didn't decouple at first.. when i had everything assembled together and was testing things everything was very noisey, with very visible distortions, lines and noise on the picture... i was scratching my head for a bit. someone suggested i decouple EVERY chip and i thought 'that cant make that much of a difference...' boy was i wrong. it cleaned everything up perfectly. the image was so crisp and clean!

another example is on my drum machine... again i didnt decouple and i got tons of bleed into the drum voices from the cymbal voices... decoupled all the chips and it was gone.

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